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From the Field
Immigration in the French Countryside
Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 February 2024
What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...
From the Field
A “Migration Crisis”? The Myths and Realities of France’s Immigration Figures
Camille Gourdeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 March 2022
Is France experiencing a “migration crisis”? Based on a statistical analysis of immigration figures, Camille Gourdeau...
Interviews
Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class
Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 November 2021
Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....
Reviews
The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist
Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 October 2021
What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what...
Reviews
Queens, New York: A Global Microcosm
Susie J. Tanenbaum
- 4 May 2021
Susie J. Tanenbaum reviews Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York,...
From the Field
The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection
Emily Reid
- 2 February 2021
Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....
From the Field
Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Jamie Longazel
- 22 December 2020
Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Essays
The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France
Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
Essays
Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood
Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2018
The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...
Essays
The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France
Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 July 2018
How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...
From the Field
Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City
Fatema Kamal
- 22 May 2018
Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...
From the Field
Immigrant Men and Voluntary Work in a Swiss City
Agnès Aubry
- 15 May 2018
Across Europe, refugees and immigrants find themselves in uncertain civil and legal territory; precariousness...
From the Field
No Lawful Status: Immigrant Youth in a State of Exclusion
Alexis Silver
- 24 October 2017
When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, nearly 800,000...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
From the Field
The Evolution of New York City’s Black Neighborhoods
John Mollenkopf
- 9 May 2017
Especially in the central cities of the Northeast, neighborhoods that were once identified with black politics and...
Reviews
Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship
Fernando Aquino
- 14 February 2017
In spite of the loud fear-mongering about immigration and borders in the US and Europe, sociologists have found...
From the Field
Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South
María V. Barbero
- 7 December 2016
While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...
Essays
Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada
Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman
- 7 December 2016
While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...
Essays
This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States
Folasade K. Famakinwa
- 7 December 2016
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
From the Field
A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South
Anna Joo Kim
- 1 November 2016
In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
Migrant Destinies
Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2014
Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...
Reviews
The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?
Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2013
Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and its...
Reviews
Migration and globalization: a tragic tale
Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 October 2013
At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...
From the Field
Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?
Marie Chabrol & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2013
The Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image?...
Essays
Quotas of foreigners in social housing: a legacy of the Algerian War? Les Canibouts, Nanterre (1959–1968)
Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 April 2012
Was it better to concentrate or disperse Algerians during the Algerian War? In the course of the conflict, both...
Series
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change
Featured
From the Field
Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...
Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...
Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...
Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...
Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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